Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

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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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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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