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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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 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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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