Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

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