Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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