Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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