Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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