Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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