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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, Men, Ideas

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious, Funeral, Unity

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rights, Liberty, Authority

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Barbarians, Doubters

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Tired, Hot

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Giving, Bees, Skeptic

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Discipline, Materialism, Old Fashioned
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Average, Way, Agnostic

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Believe, Men

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Doe

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Intelligent, Seems, Sections
"The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acceptance, Humanity, Kinship

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love You

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Experience, Exhausted

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature, Book, Enchantment
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature, Spring, Environment

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Gun, Power

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spirituality, Cry, Cried

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Clever, Stupid, Men

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Baby, Children, Mean

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wise, Beach, Ocean

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wine, Beer, Drunk

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morning, Pain, Mistake

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dream, Men, Past

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Museums, Self, Intellectual

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