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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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 Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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