The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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