Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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