Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

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

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Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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