Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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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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I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

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