At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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