There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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