It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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 really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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