Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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