Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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