Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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