People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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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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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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