Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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