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Against Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
- The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes…
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
- To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
- A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put…
- Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
- The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because…
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