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Pride consists in a man making...

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is the decisive people who ...

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Latter-day scepticism is fond ...

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No sceptical philosopher can a...

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

The sceptics, like bees, give ...

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is quite an old-fashioned f...

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is ludicrous to suppose tha...

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Liberty has produced scepticis...

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

The sceptic ultimately undermi...

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The average businessman began ...

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The home is not the one tame p...

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When a man ceases to believe i...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If I did not believe in God, I...

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Shouldn't atheist have an equa...

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The chief object of education ...

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Real development is not leavin...

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Exactly at the instant when ho...

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old assumption of the appr...

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The issue is now clear. It is ...

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

While once it was the rank and...

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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