Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.”

Home Business Imagination

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.”

People Names Finals

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Philosophical

“Nothing is certain by uncertainty.”

Certain Uncertainty

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Philosophical

“Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.”

Effort Church

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Philosophical

“It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.”

Century Legends

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Philosophical

“A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.”

Long Mind Running

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Philosophical

“Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.”

Men Animal Sex

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Philosophical

“Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.”

Science Cutting Doubt

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Philosophical

“At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.”

Christian Dog Faith

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Philosophical

“I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.”

Rights Citizens Relation

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Philosophical

“All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.”

Spiritual Style Coincidence

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Philosophical

“A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.”

Long Taken Mad

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