Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

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For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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Fairy tales are more than true.

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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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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

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There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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