Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

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The moderns do not realize modernity.

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