Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

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I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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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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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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