Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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