Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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