Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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