The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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 chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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