Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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

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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

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[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

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