Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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