Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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