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Dale Ahlquist QUOTES

1 " He seems so frivolous and so careless, but he gives money to beggars, not frivolously or carelessly, but because he believes in giving money to beggars, and giving it to them “where they stand”.

He says he knows perfectly well all the arguments against giving money to beggars. But he finds those to be precisely the arguments for giving money to them. If beggars are lazy or deceptive or wanting a drink, he knows only too well his own lack of motivation, his own dishonesty, his own thirst.

He doesn’t believe in “scientific charity” because that is too easy, as easy as writing a check. He believes in “promiscuous charity” because that is really difficult. “It means the most dark and terrible of all human actions—talking to a man. In fact, I know of nothing more difficult than really talking to the poor men we meet.” (pp. 13-14) "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

2 " The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant. "

― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton

3 " It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

4 " Every leader-writer who thunders ‘Galileo’ at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

5 " long before even Copernicus stated it, it had been suggested in the very middle of the Middle Ages by Cusa: and that the persecuting Church proceeded to persecute him by making him a Cardinal. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

6 " Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.” It "

― Dale Ahlquist , G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

7 " The problem is this. We worship the new instead of the eternal. And when we worship the new, we are always changing our allegiances, because there will always be something newer. Look "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

8 " Why should your conscience be any more reliable than your rotting teeth or your quite special defect of eyesight? "

― Dale Ahlquist , G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

9 " You can say anything against a man who praises himself, but a man who blames himself is invulnerable. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

10 " The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected. "

― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton

11 " Someone who doesn’t know history, he says, is “in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

12 " understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

13 " The snobs of the world avoid words of one syllable because they avoid common sense, plain words, clear thinking. They prefer long words, which are a substitute for thinking. "

― Dale Ahlquist , G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

14 " so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

15 " Politicians now think they have to educate the electorate and explain to them what is good for them. Gone are the days when the electorate educated their representatives . "

― Dale Ahlquist , Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton

16 " Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded. "

― Dale Ahlquist , G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

17 " When he traveled, he was writing. When he was at the pub, he was writing. He would stop in the middle of a staircase or a crowded street to write. When he ran out of paper, he would write on his shirt cuffs. He was always writing. He was one of the most prolific writers who ever lived. A hundred books, thousands of essays, hundreds of poems. "

― Dale Ahlquist , Knight of the Holy Ghost: A Short History of G.K. Chesterton

18 " All proof begins with something which cannot be proved, but can only be perceived or accepted, and is called an axiom or first principle. "

― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton

19 " In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue. "

― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton

20 "    Everyone’s belief is everyone else’s concern.24    Those who talk of “tolerating all opinions” are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion. "

― Dale Ahlquist , The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton