I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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