Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

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No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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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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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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