Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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