One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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