Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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There 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.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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