Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

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

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

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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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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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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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