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When we really worship anythi...

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All conservatism is based upo...

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Nothing is poetical if plain ...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The vulgar man is always the ...

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The perplexity of life arises...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A businessman is the only man...

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The ordinary scientific man i...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The greenhorn is the ultimate...

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We call a man a bigot or a sl...

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is nothing the matter w...

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Science in the modern world h...

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The riddles of God are more s...

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Fairy tales do not tell child...

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is less difference than...

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A society is in decay, final ...

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To love means loving the unlo...

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The wisest thing in the world...

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I don't need a church to tell...

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If men will not be governed b...

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It's not the world that's got...

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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