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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: "It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has..."
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "somehow one must love the world without being worldly."
somehow one must love the world without being worldly. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "When we really worship anything, we love not only its..."
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue..."
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most..."
[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is..."
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an..."
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome. We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable. It is this achievement of my creed that I shall... Gilbert K. Chesterton
And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the... Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens, as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and after a successful and vigorous political life, he forgets it himself. The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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