It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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