The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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