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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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