Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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