Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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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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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

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

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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