Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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 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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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