A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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