Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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