More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
  2. Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it …
  3. If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
  4. And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
  5. Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
  6. When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
  7. 'Bosh,' he said, 'On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this …
  8. A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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