All government is an ugly necessity.
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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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