Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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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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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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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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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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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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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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