One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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