One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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