There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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