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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

—  Gilbert Keith Chesterton