Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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