The Uses of Diversity Quotes

“Wherever there is animal worship there is human sacrifice.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just before a fashionable wedding that the Bishop is locked up in the coal-cellar, that is not a problem. It is obvious to anyone but an extreme anti-clerical or practical joker that the Bishop must be let out of the coal-cellar. But suppose the Bishop has been locked up in the wine-cellar, and from the obscure noises, sounds as of song and dance, etc., it is guessed that he has indiscreetly tested the vintages round him; then indeed we may properly say that there has arisen a problem; for upon the one hand, it is awkward to keep the wedding waiting, while, upon the other, any hasty opening of the door might mean an episcopal rush and scenes of the most unforeseen description.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“For this is one of the numberless neglected fallacies in the clotted folly of Eugenics. Even if we could in the abstract breed humanity well, there would be a flutter of modes and crazes about what was considered well-bred.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

“I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity