Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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