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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Causes Profound Real
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Animal Sacrifice Worship
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. CHESTERTON

Clever Men Stupid
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
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. CHESTERTON

Christian Order Running
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boy Men Son Unsullied
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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