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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
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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