Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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