Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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