Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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