Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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 some desires that are not desirable.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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