More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
  2. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
  3. Whatever the word 'great' means, Dickens was what it means.
  4. When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull charac…
  5. Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word 'indefinable' with the word …
  6. A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess t…
  7. Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our…
  8. I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of th…

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