Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

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The only object of liberty is life.

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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

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A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

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