Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.”

Stories Steps Middle

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.”

Quality Sight Bored

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Philosophical

“Progress is the mother of all problems.”

Mother Problem

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Philosophical

“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”

Mean Doe

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Philosophical

“The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.”

Long God Love One Love

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Philosophical

“Atheism is too theological.”

Atheism Theological

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Philosophical

“Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.”

Attention Paradox

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Philosophical

“Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.”

Thinking Men Running

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Philosophical

“Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.”

Real Roots Drawing

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Philosophical

“Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.”

Believe Memories Autumn

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Philosophical

“In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.”

Doubt Enlightenment Arrogant

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Philosophical

“Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.”

Stories Philosophical Romance

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