The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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