Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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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A yawn is a silent shout.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

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We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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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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But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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