More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word 'indefinable' with the word …
  2. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
  3. Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our…
  4. America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
  5. Let us, at least, dig and seek till we have discovered our own opinions. The dogmas we really hold are far more fantastic, and, perhaps, fa…
  6. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
  7. Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those who killed themse…
  8. When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull charac…

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