Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is no bigot like the atheist.

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Progress is the mother of problems.

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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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