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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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Truth Understand
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Causes Profound Real
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Education Justice Learning
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Fashion Health Men View
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Men Sorry
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Eye Spring Story Sunset
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Fear Running
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Clever Men Stupid
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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