Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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