I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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