Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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