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. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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