The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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