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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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