You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
GK Chesterton
Quotes
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
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Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
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When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.
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Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?
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