Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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A 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.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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