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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a thoughtless religion need not be so very disdainful of others with a more rationalistic taste. The old joke that the Greek sects only differed about a single letter is about the lamest and most illogical joke in the world. An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to distinguish definitely between the two. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad..."
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. Gilbert K. Chesterton
In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong. And Right and Left, said Syme with a simple eagerness, I hope you will abolish them too. They are much more troublesome to me. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come!..."
I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of..."
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. 'You will have real obligations, and therefore real adventures when you get to my Utopia. But the hardest obligation and the steepest adventure is to get there. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such..."
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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