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An English writer. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction.
Here are some famous quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton.
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New roads; new ruts.
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A yawn is a silent shout.
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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The true object of all human life is play.
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Marriage is an adventure like going to war.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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If there were no God there would be no Atheists.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.
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Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
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Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
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The traveler sees what he sees the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
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A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists but too few capitalists.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?
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True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.
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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
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Children are innocent and love justice while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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One may understand the cosmos but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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When people stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.
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The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
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I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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When you break the big laws you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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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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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
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True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
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Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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'My country right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother drunk or sober.'
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
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Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
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All science even the divine science is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or better still feel a healthy indifference to it.
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It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
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By a curious confusion many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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It has been often said very truly that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian with the Humanist sceptic after Voltaire and after Darwin the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.
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In science 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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The truth is of course that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion but on the contrary of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things are forbidden.
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It is largely because the free-thinkers as a school have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.