The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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