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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

G. K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fear God Man Scare Thinking
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Business Difference Ideal State System
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Right Wrong
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Beginning Hope Reason

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