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.
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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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