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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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