Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

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A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

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

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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

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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

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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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