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The main point of Christianity...

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

For children are innocent and ...

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In truth, there are only two k...

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole secret of mysticism ...

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is one thing to describe an...

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Nobody understands the nature ...

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Angels can fly because they ta...

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There's a lot of difference be...

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The function of the imaginatio...

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are two ways to get enou...

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People wonder why the novel is...

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Excuse me if I enjoy myself ra...

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Contemporary society has becom...

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I am a journalist and have no ...

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A great man knows he is not Go...

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If an editor can only make peo...

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The repetition in Nature may n...

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is nothing so weak, for ...

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Most Americans are born drunk,...

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Angels can fly because they ta...

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
He who has the faith has the fun.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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