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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Loneliness, Eagles, Liberty

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brain, Theology

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Use, Reason
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, November 7, 1908.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Scandal, Morality

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Psychology, Human Nature, Pity
Observer 9 December (1934)

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing, Want, Matter

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pride, Men, Personality

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dream, Men, Anticipation
"Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government, Ugly
"A Short History of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Giving, World

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eggs, Flying, Connections
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Evil, Age, May

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Inspiration, Men

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, Memories, Strange

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liars, Men, News
"Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Racism, People, Conviction
"The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kids, Intellectual, Literature

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Travel, Missing

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Essence, Steps
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden
"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage, Men, Order

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hard Work, Humility, Men

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Healing, Problem, Blind

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Analysis, Psycho, Confession

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music, Food, Literature
Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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