Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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