Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

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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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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

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That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

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When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

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

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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