The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he h...
G. K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G. K. CHESTERTON The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. CHESTERTON You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G. K. CHESTERTON Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t...
G. K. CHESTERTON The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
G. K. CHESTERTON The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's ow...
G. K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTON Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. CHESTERTON Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b...
G. K. CHESTERTON Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
G. K. CHESTERTON It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might...
G. K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
G. K. CHESTERTON Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
G. K. CHESTERTON Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. CHESTERTON By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
G. K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c...
G. K. CHESTERTON "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate...
G. K. CHESTERTON Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate...
G. K. CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G. K. CHESTERTON Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G. K. CHESTERTON There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni...
G. K. CHESTERTON There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points,...
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