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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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