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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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 are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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