Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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