The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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