The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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