Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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