Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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