I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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