Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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