People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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 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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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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