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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” (Heretics Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
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“A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities…it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“The word ‘heresy’ not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word ‘orthodoxy’ not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter, and this is done universally in the twentieth century.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.”
G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
“We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.”
G. K. Chesterton
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