Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

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Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

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