There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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