Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

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

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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

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When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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All government is an ugly necessity.

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

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

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