14 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton about philosophy
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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Wherever there is animal worship there is human sacrifice.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
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Pan again!" said Dr. Bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic.
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The worship of will is the negation of will. To admire mere choice is to refuse to choose.
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The philosophical case against theism is rather easily dealt with. There is no philosophical case against theism.
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