G.K. Chesterton Quotes

We Say That The Most Dangerous
criminal Now Is The Entirely Lawless Modern Philosopher. Compared
to Him, Burglars And Bigamists Are Essentially Moral Men; My Heart
goes Out To Them. They Accept The Essential Ideal Of Man; They
merely Seek It Wrongly. Thieves Respect Property. They Merely Wish
the Property To Become Their Property That They May More Perfectly
respect It. But Philosophers Dislike Property As Property; They
wish To Destroy The Very Idea Of Personal Possession. Bigamists
respect Marriage, Or They Would Not Go Through The Highly
ceremonial And Even Ritualistic Formality Of Bigamy. But
philosophers Despise Marriage As Marriage. Murderers Respect Human
life; They Merely Wish To Attain A Greater Fulness Of Human Life In
themselves By The Sacrifice Of What Seems To Them To Be Lesser
lives. But Philosophers Hate Life Itself, Their Own As Much As
other People's.

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