There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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