A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne 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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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