Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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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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Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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

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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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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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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

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