Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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There are no new ideas about female education.

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Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

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To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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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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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

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All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

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