I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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