Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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