I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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