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They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of

They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, Hate, Men

I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy, Fall, Mean

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Grief, Inspiration, Joy

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ideas, Catholic, May

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Boat

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Funny, Travel

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Pleasure, Crisis

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, World, Way
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Men, Believe In God

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
School, Men, Doe

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wise, Men, Elderly

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reality, Choices, Dignity

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Latin, Greek, Ignorant

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Believe, Evil

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Math, Statistics
Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin"

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Needs

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Arguing, Apologetic

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Food, Sarcasm
"Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Friendship, God
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Life, Presence Of Mind

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fighting, Battle, Glimpse

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Catholic, Reason, Explaining

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