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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 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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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.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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