Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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