A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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