When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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