The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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 are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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