Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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