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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction... For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)