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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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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheism is too theological.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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