Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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