Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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I am at one with my duality.

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We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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

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We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

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If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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