Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Do 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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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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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.
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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.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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