Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 10

• 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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  Adventure, Law, Steps

  "Heretics". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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  Writing, Want, Matter

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• Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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  Dream, Kings, Men

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• There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

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  Inspiring, Travel, Home

  "The Everlasting Man" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Introduction: The Plan Of This Book), 1925.

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• For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

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  Mean, Point Break, Soul

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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  People, Wit, Wells

  "Fool’s Talk - The Kinship of Wit and Wisdom" by Kevin Belmonte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2015.

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• He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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  Heart, Liberty, Politics

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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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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  Funny, Business, Humor

  "The style guide editor on ... peer pressure and using people's proper names" by David Marsh, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

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  Men, Fists, Posture

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• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

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  Hard Work, Humility, Men

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• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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  Leadership, Thank You, Teacher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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  Courage, Men, Order

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• Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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  Christian, Orthodoxy, Sin

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Eagles, Liberty

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• Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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  Democracy, Progress, Majority

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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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  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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  Mother, Essence, Steps

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

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  Powerful, Stupid, Race

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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  Men, Age, Gold

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• Progress is the mother of all problems.

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  Mother, Progress, Problem

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• A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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  Men, Satire, Libel

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• I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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  Funny, Spiritual, Dog

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• Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

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  Night, Oysters, Joy

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• Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

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  Dog, Gone, Appearance

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