Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

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Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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