An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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