It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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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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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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