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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
