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Sane Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not…
- Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province…
- Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
- In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
- The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an…
- The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of…
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good…
- He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result…
- People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so…
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- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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