Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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 chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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