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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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