Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The past is not what it was.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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