Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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 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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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