A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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