When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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