Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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