Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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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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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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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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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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