I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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.
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