Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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 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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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 madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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