Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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