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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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