Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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