Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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