Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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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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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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