There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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