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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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 free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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 dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
