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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Everywhere we see than men do not go mad by dreaming"
Everywhere we see than men do not go mad by dreaming Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while..."
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like to pass ten mortal hours in a parlour with an absent-minded tiger? Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice..."
It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is..."
The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down...."
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticise it as if he comprehended it. The very fact of its unfamiliarity and mystery ought to set him thinking about the deeper causes that make people so different from himself, and that without merely assuming that they must be inferior to himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay; Round us in antic order their crippled vices came— Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual..."
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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