People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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 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 historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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