The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONA dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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