Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 23

• Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Men, Public Opinion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Men, Knowing

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• The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Miracle, Outrageous

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• When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Liberty, Anarchy

  Daily News (London), 29 July 1905

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• My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Boredom, Long

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• It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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  Certain, Skeptic, Clear

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Saws, Firsts

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• People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Impossible, Socialism

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• The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Important, Doe, Way

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• The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Art, Real

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• It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, School, Law

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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  People, Barbarians, Doubters

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• A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Puritan, Righteous, Persons

  The New York Times, November 21, 1930.

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• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Order

  "Tremendous Trifles" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. 12, (p. 63), 1955.

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• It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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  Healthy, Jam, Sentimental

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• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Wine, Mean

  "Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Hero

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• No man knows he is young while he is young.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Revolution, Grows

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• The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Giving, Bees, Skeptic

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• When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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• Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love You

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• The supreme adventure is being BORN

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Born, Supreme

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Able, Mood

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