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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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