Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

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Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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