We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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