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.
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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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