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.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The past is not what it was.
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