I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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