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.
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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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