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.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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