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Quotes from Heretics — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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It is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.

Heretics (1905)

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

Heretics (1905)

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Heretics (1905)

The whole secret of the practical success of Christendom lies in the Christian humility, however imperfectly fulfilled. For with the removal of all question of merit or payment, the soul is suddenly released for incredible voyages.

Heretics (1905)

A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope. Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible merely because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world.

Heretics (1905)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. K. Chesterton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.