Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? 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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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

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This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

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A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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