Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

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Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

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