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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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