But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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