Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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