Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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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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All government is an ugly necessity.

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That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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