Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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Atheism is too theological.

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.

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Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

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