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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of human life is play.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
