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. CHESTERTONThere is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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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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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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