More from G. K. Chesterton
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Faith means believing the unbelievable.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton 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.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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More on ignorance
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We are born as children of ignorance, on a journey to be a child of awareness.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Silence will remove the veil of ignorance.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It’s people who haven’t been anywhere, haven’t seen the world.
Tyson FuryTyson Fury Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
Daniel DennettDaniel Dennett I haven’t wept for days, only shuffling feet, carrying weights, ignoring the pain, numbing the face. Its all a charade.
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