It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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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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