Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

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How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

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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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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

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There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

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I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

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