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The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton QUOTES

The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton QUOTES

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

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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " 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

5 "    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

6 " Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never "

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

7 " The two first facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. . . . [A]ll "

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

8 " We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In "

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

9 " Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities. "

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

10 " The moderns say that they are leaving the past, because it is exhausted; but they lie. They are escaping from the past because it is so strong. "

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

11 " when I say that children should be taught to think I do not mean (like many moderns) that they should be taught to doubt; for the two processes are not only not the same, but are in many ways opposite. To doubt is only to destroy; to think is to create. "

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

12 " Chesterton says that thinking is the hardest work in the world. And hard work, he says, is repugnant to our nature. "

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

13 " Those who merely denounce intolerance seem to have no theory at all with which to defend toleration. "

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

14 " There are, he claims, two kinds of people in the world: those who are dogmatic and know it, and those who are dogmatic and don’t know it. "

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

15 " 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.24 The Conservative Party suddenly becomes the Liberal Party the instant it is liberated from responsibility. The Liberal Party suddenly becomes the Conservative Party the instant it has anything to conserve.25 Both modern parties believe in a government by the few; the only difference is whether it is the Conservative few or the Progressive few.26 When Conservatives, Liberals, and Socialists all agree, it is time for the larger and more harmless part of mankind to look after its pockets.27 And it was while in America that he made his famous comment: “It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”28 The irony of this gallows humor lies in the fact that it is the politicians who are supposed to be upholding justice that should instead be brought to justice. They should be upholding the right to life, but they have done just the opposite. While the right to life is the most ignored, and the right to liberty the most abused, the right to pursue happiness is the most misunderstood. Obviously the third is dependent on the first two. With no life and no liberty there is no pursuit of happiness. "

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

16 "    There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody; to the denial of the liberty given by God, which is called life. . . . "

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

17 " The exception has become the rule, and that is the worst of all possible tyrannies. "

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

18 " But the problem is that “inclusiveness” and “tolerance” are dogmas. It is not dogma that divides people. It is dogma that brings people together. The ultimate common bond is truth. That is why it is worth arguing about. "

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

19 " The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument is when you agree to differ. "

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

20 " In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The "

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