Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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All 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.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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