When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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