One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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