Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

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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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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

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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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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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