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. CHESTERTONThere 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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