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. 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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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