Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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