Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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The only object of liberty is life.

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

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Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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