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.
G. K. CHESTERTONI may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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