Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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