Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

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Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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

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