Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChristianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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