Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 12

• Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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  Truth, Lying, Dogma

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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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• If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

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  Church, World, Grows

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• In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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  Racism, People, Conviction

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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• Atheism is too theological.

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  Atheism, Theological

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• There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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  Eggs, Flying, Connections

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• All government is an ugly necessity.

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  Government, Ugly

  "A Short History of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

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  Stars, Taken, Tired

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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  Men, Vulgarity Is, Class

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• We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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  Soul, Pleasure, Worthy

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• America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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  Country, America, Creeds

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• There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

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  People, Scandal, Morality

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• Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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  Wall, Discipline, Catholic

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

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  Order, Opposites, World

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• The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

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  Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

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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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  Drinking, Laughing, Would Be

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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  Truth, Fiction, Suits

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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  Sex, Wish, Important

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

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  Mean, Doe, Arcs

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• All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

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  Imagination, Mind, Forget

  "The Dagger with Wings: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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

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  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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  Dream, Men, Anticipation

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

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• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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  Psychology, Human Nature, Pity

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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• Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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  Evil, Age, May

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• When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

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  Children, Giving, Advice

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