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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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