One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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 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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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