One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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