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61 " Poetry is the flower of civilization,” said Chesterton in one lecture. “Romanticism has worked itself out in our time in nonsense and dirt. We should remind the humanists that if poetry has become too personal it has also become unpoetic. "
― Dale Ahlquist , Knight of the Holy Ghost: A Short History of G.K. Chesterton
62 " If you attempt an actual argument with a paper of the opposite politics, says Chesterton, “you will have no answer except slanging or silence. "
― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton
63 " modern world’s unthinking slavery to fads and discussed the things it loses rather than gains from technology, the things it has forgotten from history, and its general lack of common sense. “The world is not so anxious to do things worth doing as to do things not worth doing, and do them very well.”58 "
64 " But after having been forgotten, G. K. Chesterton is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Why? Well, the obvious reason is that people are reading him again. The rediscovery of Chesterton has less to do with his importance as a figure from history than his significance in the present. "
65 " We don’t need a Church that moves with the world; we need a Church that moves the world. "
66 " The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument is when you agree to differ. "
― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton
67 " The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place… in other words, the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. "
― Dale Ahlquist , My Name Is Lazarus: 34 Stories of Converts Whose Path to Rome Was Paved by G. K. Chesterton
68 " In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The "
69 " The mere strain of modern life is unbearable; and in it even the things that men do desire may break down; marriage and fair ownership and worship and the mysterious worth of man. "
70 " We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We "
71 " we rush madly forward toward we know not what and call ourselves “progressive”. It "
― Dale Ahlquist , G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense
72 " In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know. "
73 " If truth is relative, to what is it relative? "
74 " We do not live in a truth-seeking age. We live in a pleasure-seeking age. With pleasure as our goal, we are destined for disappointment. “The very fury with which people go on seeking pleasure is a proof that they have not found it. "