Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I 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
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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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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