Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

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