The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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