Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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 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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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