Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

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The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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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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A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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Theology is only thought applied to religion.

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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

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