We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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