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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Two, People, World

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Selfish, Habit, Unselfish

There nearly always is a method in madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Madness, Method
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love Is, Lasts, Blind
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Home, Might, Turnips
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Clever, Insult, Said
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dark, Devil, Idiot

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress, Doctrine, Needs
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Two, People, Dogma

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doe, Looks, Interviews
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Book, Reading, Simple
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stars, Fighting, Giving
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Horse, Thinking, Race

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Rome
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Accepting, Shots
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
School, Support, Moral

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humility, Pride, Impossible
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth, Passion, Beard
"Whisker Wars: TV Review" by David Knowles, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 4, 2011.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wise, Men, Doe
"The Innocence of Father Brown". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Madness, Be Careful

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Missing, Links, Knows

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Joy, Contentment, Castles

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Sublime, Legends

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Book, Men, People
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking, Moments, Detachment
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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