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title: "37 Modern Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton"
description: "37 Modern quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more Modern sayings from other authors."
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> [Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-toleration-is-really-a-tyranny-it-is-a-tyranny-because-it-is-a/)

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> [The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-filled-with-men-who-hold-dogmas-so-strongly-that-2/)

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> [The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-has-no-notion-except-that-of-simplifying-something/)

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> [Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/christianity-even-when-watered-down-is-hot-enough-to-boil-all-modern/)

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> [Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-broad-mindedness-benefits-the-rich-and-benefits-nobody-else/)

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> [If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/if-there-is-one-thing-worse-than-the-modern-weakening-of-major-morals/)

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> [Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/savages-and-modern-artists-are-alike-strangely-driven-to-create/)

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> [A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-great-curse-has-fallen-upon-modern-life-with-the-discovery-of-the/)

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> [Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-science-is-necessarily-a-double-edged-tool-a-tool-that-cuts/)

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> [The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-most-dangerous-criminal-now-is-the-entirely-lawless-modern/)

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> [Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/compromise-used-to-mean-that-half-a-loaf-was-better-than-no-bread/)

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> [In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/in-the-modern-conflict-between-the-smile-and-the-laugh-i-am-all-in/)

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> [Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/were-patrick-henry-to-return-to-earth-and-look-around-on-the-vast/)

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> [A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-modern-man-may-disapprove-of-some-of-his-sweeping-reforms-and/)

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> [Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-nature-worship-is-all-upside-down-trees-and-fields-ought-to-be/)

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> [The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-great-misfortune-of-the-modern-english-is-not-at-all-that-they/)

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> [What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-the-world-wants-what-the-world-is-waiting-for-is-not-modern/)

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> [There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/there-are-two-kinds-of-paradoxes-they-are-not-so-much-the-good-and/)

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> [ \[Consider\] a fence or gate erected across a road\] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/consider-a-fence-or-gate-erected-across-a-road-the-more-modern-type/)

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> [The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-theory-of-free-speech-that-truth-is-so-much-larger-and-stranger/)

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> [The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-has-far-too-little-understanding-of-the-art-of/)

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> [The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-outer-ring-of-christianity-is-a-rigid-guard-of-ethical/)

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> [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/)

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> [Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/though-the-academic-authorities-are-actually-proud-of-conducting/)

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> [I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-do-not-know-much-about-mohammed-or-mohammedanism-i-do-not-take-the/)

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> [The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-great-intellectual-tradition-that-comes-down-to-us-from-the-past/)

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> [The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-not-evil-in-some-ways-the-modern-world-is-far-too-2/)

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> [An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/an-imbecile-habit-has-arisen-in-modern-controversy-of-saying-that/)

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> [The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-life-of-a-thinking-man-will-probably-be-divided-into-two-parts/)

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> [Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/folk-lore-means-that-the-soul-is-sane-but-that-the-universe-is-wild/)

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> [Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/science-in-the-modern-world-has-many-uses-its-chief-use-however-is-to/)

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> [Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-man-is-educated-to-understand-foreign-languages-and/)

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> [The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-last-few-decades-have-been-marked-by-a-special-cultivation-of-the/)

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> [The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-full-of-the-old-christian-virtues-gone-mad-the/)

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> [The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-mind-will-accept-nothing-on-authority-but-will-accept/)

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> [I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-like-the-americans-for-a-great-many-reasons-i-like-them-because/)

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> [Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/modern-masters-of-science-are-much-impressed-with-the-need-of/)

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## Other authors on Modern

## More by Gilbert K. Chesterton

> [The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aim-of-good-prose-words-is-to-mean-what-they-say-the-aim-of-good/)

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> [Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/youth-is-always-too-serious-and-just-now-it-is-too-serious-about/)

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> [Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-does-not-mean-a-dead-town-it-does-not-mean-that-the-living/)

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> [It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-shorter-to-state-the-things-forbidden-than-the-things-permitted/)

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> [Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/everyone-seems-to-assume-that-the-unscrupulous-parts-of-journalism/)

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> [For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-scotland-has-a-double-dose-of-the-poison-called-heredity-the/)

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> [Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/faith-is-always-at-a-disadvantage-it-is-a-perpetually-defeated-thing/)

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> [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/)

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> [The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-triangle-of-truisms-of-father-mother-and-child-cannot-be/)

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> [Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/criticism-is-only-words-about-words-and-of-what-use-are-words-about/)

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> [What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-we-suffer-from-today-is-humility-in-the-wrong-place-the-old/)

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> [Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/plato-was-only-a-bernard-shaw-who-unfortunately-made-his-jokes-in/)

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> [The word good has many meanings...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-word-good-has-many-meanings/)

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> [Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/music-with-dinner-is-an-insult-both-to-the-cook-and-the-violinist/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

> [Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/eugenics-asserts-that-all-men-must-be-so-stupid-that-they-cannot/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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                        "text": "[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, \"I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.\" To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: \"If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.\"",
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                        "text": "I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.",
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