Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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There 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.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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