Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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