There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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