When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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