Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

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While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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