The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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