Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There nearly always is a method in madness.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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