Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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There are no new ideas about female education.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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