It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.
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Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.
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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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For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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