A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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