One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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