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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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