I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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