There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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 are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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