We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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