Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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