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. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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 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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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