Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON