Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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