More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
  2. The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed;…
  3. It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. …
  4. Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would h…
  5. 'I swear to you, then,' said MacIan, after a pause. 'I swear to you that nothing shall come between us. I swear to you that nothing shall b…
  6. As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doct…
  7. Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
  8. The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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