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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

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

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

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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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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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