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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated,

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Educational, People, Leaving

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Family, Christian, Prayer

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking, Church, Needs

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life And Love, Great Person, Really Great

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Religion, Thousand

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Inspirational, Friendship

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Running, Order
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Political, Politician, Terrible
"The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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Inspirational, Education, School
"Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Night, Garden, Heaven

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wall, Pride, People
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational
"Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks
"The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Errors

It is always the secure who are humble.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humble, Kids, Humility
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy, Telephones

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspiring, Christian, Moving

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rights, Long, People

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Home, Mean, Not Worth It

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Running, Differences, States

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hate, Argument, Discussion

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Religion, Morality
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage, Veterans Day, Strong
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education, School, People

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Years, Doctrine, Sin

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