Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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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 historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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 are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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