The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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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.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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