Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

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They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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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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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

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If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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

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Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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