The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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 Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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