Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

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THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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The true object of human life is play.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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The only object of liberty is life.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

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La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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