“The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only “instinct” I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as “the sin of avarice.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“Art consists of limitation…. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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“The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it–because it is a fact.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
