Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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

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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

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She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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