Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.”

Next Clever Tasks

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.”

House Bed Void

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Philosophical

“If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.”

Thinking Temptation

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Philosophical

“Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.”

People Want

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Philosophical

“Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.”

Government Educated Aristocracy

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Philosophical

“There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.”

Kind Conviction

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Philosophical

“Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.”

Thinking Mean

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Philosophical

“There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.”

Atheism Atheist Argument

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Philosophical

“If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.”

Religious Literature Cosmos

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Philosophical

“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.”

Believe Morality

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Philosophical

“To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.”

Action Progress

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Philosophical

“With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.”

Culture Strange Hustle

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