Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

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Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

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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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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

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A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

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