Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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