Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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Art is the signature of man.

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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

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To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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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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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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

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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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