Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

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The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

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We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

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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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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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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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