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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

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Crow Duality Thorn
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Accepting Doctrine Miracle
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

Country People Regard Riddle
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Education Justice Learning
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
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
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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Clever Men Stupid
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. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Secret Sublime
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Ancient Pride Unfreese
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Gratitude Test
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Courage Day Strong Veteran