The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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