There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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