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Fable Is More Historical Than Fact, Because Fact Tells Us About One Man And Fable Tells Us About A Million Men.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man
and fable tells us about a million men.
-- G.K. Chesterton
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemie
probably because generally they are the same people. -- G.K. Chesterto...
Quote #600 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemie
probably because generally they are the same people. -- G.K. Chesterto...
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy...
It is a good rule of health that tells us that we should eat not one ounce more at any given meal than we are able to bench press easily.
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
Chance alone has a message for us....We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds....
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. -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy...
Tertullian was born in Carthage somewhere about 160 A.
D. He was a pagan, and he abandoned himself to the lascivious life of his city until about his 35th year, when he became a Christian ....