One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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