Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is always the secure who are humble.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

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In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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