Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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