Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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