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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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