Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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