Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a 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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON







