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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

«We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.»
«The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.»
«Materialists and madmen never have doubts.»
«All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.»
«The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.»
«Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.»
«When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.»
«Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.»
«Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.»
«The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.»