In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there p…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. ✨ The Innocence of Father Brown The Blue Cross (1911)
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism. ✨ Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1932.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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