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 one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Laughter 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.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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