Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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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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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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

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There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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