Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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

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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

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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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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

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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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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

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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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