Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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