Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

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The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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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 are no new ideas about female education.

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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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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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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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The classes that wash most are those that work least.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

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