Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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