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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Virtue
Man
Tolerance
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chastity
Wrong
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness
Religion
Mystery
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men
Fact
Man
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Experience
Now
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education
Being
Want
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education
Society
Soul
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being
Burden
May
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government
Aristocracy
Democracy
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty
Sin
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage
Contradiction
Desire
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Compromise
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Will
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life
Men
Soul
Time