Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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