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 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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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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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