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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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