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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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