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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The 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.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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