Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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Only poor men get hanged.

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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