Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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[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.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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