Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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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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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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