Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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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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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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