Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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