I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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