Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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I am at one with my duality.

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Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

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