Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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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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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

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