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Often Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
- Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful…
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
- The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these…
- It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth…
- 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…
- But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to…
- The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
- The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
- But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get…
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