Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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 madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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