Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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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