Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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