I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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