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#1

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

#2

“When men chose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.”
― Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton

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#3

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

556 likes

#4

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

667 likes

#5

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
― G.K. Chesterton

486 likes

#6

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

821 likes

#7

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

5127 likes

#8

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

945 likes

#9

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

1536 likes

#10

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45221 likes

#11

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious

8922 likes

#12

“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: christianity, nature

303 likes

#13

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fear, god

409 likes

#14

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: philosophy

381 likes

#15

“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads

tags: archtecture, free-verse, free-verse-poetry, funny, funny-but-true, poetry

78 likes

#16

“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: freedom, laws, personal-autonomy, responsibilities, rules

154 likes

#17

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

tags: inspirational

564 likes

#18

“Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#19

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#20

“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.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows

tags: politics

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