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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
(1909) Orthodoxy

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
(1910) What's Wrong with the World

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.
- New York Times Magazine, Feb. 11, 1923

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Our whole is indeed very like the Titanic; alike in its power and its impotence, its security and its insecurity

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
- (1908) All Things Considered

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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War is not "the best way of settling differences;" it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
-- (July 24, 1915) Illustrated London News

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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There is in stupidity of this sort a strange slippery strength: because it can be not only outside rules but outside reason. The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a great advantage in controversy; though the advantage breaks down when he tries to reduce it to simple addition, to chess, or to the game called war.
-- (1915) The Appetite of Tyranny

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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SOMEBODY once said that brevity is the soul of wit, when he obviously meant to say that wit is the soul of brevity. It is obvious that the brevity is only the body, and the wit the spirit. And mere brevity, as in the statement "Cats eat rats," when left to itself, seems still to await some awakening visit of the divine fire.
- (1933) All I Survey

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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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.
-- (2006) The Catholic Church and Conversion, “The Obvious Blunders”

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. If we paused for a moment to examine the cheapest cant phrases that pass our lips every day, we should find that they were as rich and suggestive as so many sonnets.
-G K Chesterton (1901) A Defence of Slang

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.
-G K Chesterton (1927) "The Outline of Sanity"

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
-- G. K. Chesterton

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones; the evil of aristocracy is that it places everything in the hands of a class of people who can always inflict what they can never suffer.
-G K Chesterton (1905) Heretics

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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The rich man to-day does not only rule by using private property; he also rules by treating public property as if it were private property.
--G K Chesterton (1917) "Utopia of Users"

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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Barbarism is not a matter of methods but of aims. We say that these veneered vandals have the perfectly serious aim of destroying certain ideas which, as they think, the world has outgrown; without which, as we think, the world will die.
-G K Chesterton (1915) "The Appetite of Tyranny"

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.
-G K Chesterton (1906) "Charles Dickens"


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wrote in many genres including essays, fiction, and Christian apologetics.

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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Japanese pictures were really rather like pictures made by cats. They were full of feathery softness and of sudden and spirited scratches. … That moon is so large and luminous that one can imagine a hundred cats howling under it. Then there is the exhaustive treatment of the anatomy of birds and fish; subjects in which cats are said to be interested. 

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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But the thing which is really required for the proper working of democracy is not merely the democratic system, or even the democratic philosophy, but the democratic emotion.
-G K Chesterton

Source: Heretics (1905)

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