Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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 giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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