All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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