Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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I am at one with my duality.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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