Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

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

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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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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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

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Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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