Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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 great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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