Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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