Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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.
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