Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAt the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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