Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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