Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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Art is the signature of man.

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He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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

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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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