Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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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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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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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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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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