Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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Progress is the mother of all problems.

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A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

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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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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

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Passion makes every detail important.

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There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

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