Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAt 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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