Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

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