There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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