Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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