Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

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

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.

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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

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I am at one with my duality.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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