Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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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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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

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What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

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[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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The past is not what it was.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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