I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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