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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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