Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

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The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

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Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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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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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

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La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

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