"Even in an empire of atheists the dead…" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred."
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1,027 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
- And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does…
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping…
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
More Always Sacred Quotes
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- Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home. — Barbara De Angelis
- In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. — Auguste Rodin