Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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