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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying..."
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The books that influence the world are those that it has not..."
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to..."
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that in this case it would interfere to create a great evil; and I am not going to be turned from the discussion of that direct issue to bottomless botherations about Socialism and Individualism, or the relative advantages of always turning to the right and always turning to the left. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant. Gilbert K. Chesterton
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "tradition is only democracy extended through time."
tradition is only democracy extended through time. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of..."
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is..."
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God."
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through..."
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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