Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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