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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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