The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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