There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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