There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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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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