Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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