Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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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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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

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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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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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