It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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