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. CHESTERTONI don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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