At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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 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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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