Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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