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G.K. Chesterton
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable...
“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everythi...
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are t...
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children...
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of sci...
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great man...
“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it...
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradit...
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to r...
“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardl...
“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your tho...
“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”
