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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

G. K. Chesterton

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Passion makes every detail important.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Detail Important Passion
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Bad Democracy Education Government
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution

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