Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

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Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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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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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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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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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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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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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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