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. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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