Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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