Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

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