Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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