Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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