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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Intuition
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Slang
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Angels
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Chastity
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Courage
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Half a truth is better than no politics.
Politicians and Politics
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
Happiness
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
Conflict
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Committees and Meetings
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Problems
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Marriage
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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No man knows he is young while he is young.
Youth
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Hatred
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Argument
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Analysis
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Terrorism
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Plays
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
Wonder
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Stupidity
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun