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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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