Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

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The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

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What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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