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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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