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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

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Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

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