Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON







