"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."
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1,027 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
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- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does…
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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- What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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