It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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