Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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