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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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