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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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 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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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