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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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