Making stupidity popular
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton
Archive for the 'Incisive Quotes' Category
God has been relocated
“Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.”
– Erica Jong, from How To Save Your Own Life
Where to find truth
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- G. K. Chesterton
Draw the line
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton
Preparing to relocate?
“If you are a Christian, no earthly city is yours.”
Run to the light.
“God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.”
Don’t win friends and influence people
“Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?”
Was Jesus mad?
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”
- Anthony the Great
What to do about a sinful world
“We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”
Lay down your burden.
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
- St. Ambrose
