Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

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  Pride, Men, Personality

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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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• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

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  Life, Time, Hate

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• When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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  Men, Use, Reason

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, November 7, 1908.

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• The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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  Children, Destiny, Men

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• There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

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  Children, Philosophy, Passing On

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• The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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  Failure, World, Trouble

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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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  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving

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• There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

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  Two, Kind, Paradox

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• Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

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  Laughing, Violence, Levity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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  Children, Hero, Fighting

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• Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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  Liars, Men, News

  "Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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  Time, Sleep, Thinking

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by G. K. Chesterton, p. 31, 1917.

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• Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Negative

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• What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

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  Mother, Father, Anarchy

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• All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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  Change, Ideas, Political

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

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  Brain, Theology

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• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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  Simplicity, World, Modern

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