The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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