There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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