When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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