Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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