Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

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One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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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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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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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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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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