Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

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Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

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Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

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The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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Atheism is too theological.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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