Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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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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