Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The 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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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