Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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