There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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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 agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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