Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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