Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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