Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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