Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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