It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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