Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Laughter 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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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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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
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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