Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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