Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The only object of liberty is life.

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Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

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The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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