There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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