Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

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All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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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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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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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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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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