Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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Art is the signature of man.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

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The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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