Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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The word good has many meanings.

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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

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