It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
More quotations from G. K. Chesterton A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: desire trying Christian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they were not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: reason fallacies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: desire trying Christian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they were not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: reason fallacies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email