Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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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 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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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