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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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 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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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