I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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