Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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