We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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