Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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