I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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The 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.
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