Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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Plato was right, but not quite right.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

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There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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