Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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