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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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