Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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