The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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