There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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