Quotes by Gk Chesterton

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”

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“Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

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“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.”

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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

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“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

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“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.”

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“To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome.”

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