We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
G. K. Chesterton
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Heretics (1905), chapter XIV: On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family; Complete sentence from the argument that community asks us to encounter people we have not chosen. Surrounding passage read; Chesterton’s own theological reflection, not a quoted remark by Nietzsche. Public do
- Heretics (1905), chapter XIV: On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
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