Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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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
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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 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 is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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