Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

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Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

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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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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

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