Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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 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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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