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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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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

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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

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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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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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