Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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