Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

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Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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Passion makes every detail important.

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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

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All government is an ugly necessity.

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