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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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