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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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