Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
G. K Chesterton
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
G. K Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K Chesterton
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K Chesterton
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
G. K Chesterton
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K Chesterton
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K Chesterton
Psychoanalysis [is]... confession without absolution.
G. K Chesteron
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K Chesterton
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G. K Chesterton
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.
G. K Chesterton
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
G. K Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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