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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: "The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark."
The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. .…I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Art is the signature of man."
Art is the signature of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
. . . men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave. Gilbert K. Chesterton
[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left-- sanity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
All that is mererationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnanceand terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels butdenies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person whoadmits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school. Gilbert K. Chesterton
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots..."
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark? Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid..."
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "How you think when you lose determines how long it will be..."
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six..."
Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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