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Far Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,…
- Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and…
- There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists…
- Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.
- The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes…
- Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
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