Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.”

Men Believe Atheist

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.”

Rights Liberty Authority

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Philosophical

“Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.”

Evil Doctors Disease

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Philosophical

“How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.”

Christian Would Be

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Philosophical

“Half a truth is better than no politics.”

Half Politics

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Philosophical

“In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.”

Church Unique Easy

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Philosophical

“To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.”

Science Philosophy Death

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Philosophical

“The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.”

Men Dream Past

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Philosophical

“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

Men Dog Drinking

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Philosophical

“We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”

Moving Christian Church

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Philosophical

“As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.”

Soul Teaching Personality

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Philosophical

“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.”

Men Believe World

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