Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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

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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

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If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

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I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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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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The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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