Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

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People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

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