I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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