All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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