Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

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The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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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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