Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world.

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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

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

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But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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