One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Dipsomaniac 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.
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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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