Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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