The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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