All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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