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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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