Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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