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.
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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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