Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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