But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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