Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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Progress is the mother of problems.

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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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

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Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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