Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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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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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

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