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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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 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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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 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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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