Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

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There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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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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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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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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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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