The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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