Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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