It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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