One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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