I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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