Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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

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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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