When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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