One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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