The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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