Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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