When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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