Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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