Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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