Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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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Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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All government is an ugly necessity.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

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When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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