Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 12

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Racism, People, Conviction

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

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  Eye, Two, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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  Men, Mercy, Paradox

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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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• 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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• Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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  Faith, Men, Bows

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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 danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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  Believe, Loss, Political

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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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• I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

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  Men, One Day, Strange

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• I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

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  Wise, Men, Elderly

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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.

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  Simple, Men, Expression

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter VII: The War of the Gods and Demons), 1925.

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