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. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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