One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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 is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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