Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.”

Art Humility Size

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”

Men Literature Historical

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Philosophical

“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”

Differences Cells

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Philosophical

“A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.”

Mean Philosophy

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Philosophical

“He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.”

Men May Mad

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Philosophical

“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”

Men Animal God

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Philosophical

“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”

Men Literature

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Philosophical

“Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.”

Lying Truth

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Philosophical

“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”

Christian Sorry Mad

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Philosophical

“[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."”

Thinking Intelligent Going Away

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Philosophical

“It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.”

Power Criticism Speech

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Philosophical

“As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.”

Simplicity Leaving Insane

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