Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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