wisdom of GKChesterton

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”









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point well taken

        


"There's something to be said
            for stabbing people in the front
                 in a town
                      where everybody goes around all day
                            stabbing each other in the back."


       - ben smith










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listen to desiderius erasmus

                       I doubt if a single individual can be found
                        from the whole of mankind
                        free from some form of insanity.
               The only difference is one of degree.
                   A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife
                    is called insane because
                         this happens to very few people.











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last light shining

                   




                 “Lifting one's gaze to the living God,   the guarantor of our freedom and of truth,
               is a premise for arriving at a new humanity.     Nowadays, in a special way,
           the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love,
      and consequently the one light which in the end,   illumines the darkness of the world
 and gives us strength to live and work”




                - Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est. 2006

epistemological constraint

We are learning a great many clever things.
 The next great task will be to learn not to do them.




             -- G.K. Chesterton













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fallacy all dressed up

There is no female mind.
The brain is not an organ of sex.
Might as well speak of a female liver.


                - Charlotte Perkins Gilman









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nobody said this would be easy

while the fullness of faith can be said to subsist
within the Roman Catholic Church
the Church herself subsists largely
in a sea of hatred and blindness







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