Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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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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Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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