Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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A 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.
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