I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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