One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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