Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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