Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

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The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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The moderns do not realize modernity.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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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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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

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