Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

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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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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

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