Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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

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Art is the signature of man.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

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I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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