A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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A 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.
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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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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 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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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