Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick 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.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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.
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