Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

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Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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