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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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 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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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