A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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