Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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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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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

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There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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