All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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 may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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