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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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