Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

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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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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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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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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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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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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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