Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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