Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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