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Upon Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you…
- 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,…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when…
- The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough…
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion…
- An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten…
- Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
- We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of…
- A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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