The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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