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The only words that ever sati...

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Savages and modern artists ar...

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No sceptical philosopher can ...

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To mix science up with philos...

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is only one thing that ...

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Business, especially big busi...

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Because a girl should have lo...

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If we want to give poor peopl...

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A good Moslem king was one wh...

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The aim of good prose words i...

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

"The Universe repeats itself,...

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man making the confession o...

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

These are the things which mi...

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Why be something to everybody...

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Liberty is the very last idea...

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Because our expression is imp...

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is not greedy to enjoy a g...

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Liberty has produced sceptici...

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Playing as children means pla...

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When a man ceases to believe ...

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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