There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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