Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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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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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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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

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Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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