There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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