Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

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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 clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

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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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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

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

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