Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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