Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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