Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

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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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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

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It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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