Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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