Listers, as SPL enjoys this Thanksgiving with friends and family, please enjoy this offering of GK Chesterton quotes.

Rights & the Good:

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

Atheism:

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

Shooting Grandma:

“The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

An Adventure:

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

Religious Liberty:

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”

Traveler & Tourist:

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

Muddled Feminism:

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”

I Am:

“Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly,”

Fallacies to Fashions:

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

Cheers:

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”

When You Lose:

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

The Evolutionists:

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

Perspective:

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”

Madness:

“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”