All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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