Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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