I 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.
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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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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