One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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