An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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