Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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