Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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