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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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