Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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