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. 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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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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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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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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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