Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.

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