Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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