549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton


  • Author G.K. Chesterton
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    There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.

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    So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.

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    He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.

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    A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large.

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    Let beliefs fade fast and frequently, if you wish institutions to remain the same. The more the life of the mind is unhinged, the more the machinery of matter will be left to itself.

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