Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

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Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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Theology is only thought applied to religion.

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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