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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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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