Tag: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return….Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God ‘No,’ said Father Brown.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

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There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

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