The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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 talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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