Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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