More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
  2. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
  3. 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…
  4. All government is an ugly necessity.
  5. 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…
  6. When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to i…
  7. The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed;…
  8. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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