Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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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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