A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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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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