Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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