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.
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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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