All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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