Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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