Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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