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Quotes from Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

Orthodoxy (1908)

First, the egoist calls life a war without mercy, and then he takes the greatest possible trouble to drill his enemies in war. To preach egoism is to practise altruism.

Orthodoxy (1908)

There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

Orthodoxy (1908)

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Orthodoxy (1908)

If a man says (for instance) that men have a conspiracy against him, you cannot dispute it except by saying that all the men deny that they are conspirators; which is exactly what conspirators would do. His explanation covers the facts as much as yours.

Orthodoxy (1908)

In the act of destroying the idea of Divine authority we have largely destroyed the idea of that human authority by which we do a long-division sum. With a long and sustained tug we have attempted to pull the mitre off pontifical man; and his head has come off with it.

Orthodoxy (1908)

Attribution

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