There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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 giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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