Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

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[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

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