Faith means believing the unbelievable.
G. K. CHESTERTONWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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