It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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.
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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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