Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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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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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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