Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

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...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

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The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

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I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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