Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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