Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
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“It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.”
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“Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
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“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”
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“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
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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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“Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.”
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“Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.”
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“The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings.”
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“Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.”
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“I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right”
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“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”
-- Gilbert K. ChestertonSource : "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.
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“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
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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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“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
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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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“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
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“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
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“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”
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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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“The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.”
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“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.”
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“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
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“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
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“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton#Puritan Quotes #Righteous Quotes #Righteous Indignation Quotes
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“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
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