Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

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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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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

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