Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.” — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
