It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Dipsomaniac 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.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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