Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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