I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The past is not what it was.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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