A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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