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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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