Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 19

• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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  Love, Children, Justice

  "The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

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• The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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  Beautiful, People, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

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  Simple, Darkness, Facts

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• Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

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  Book, Hair, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Funny, Respect, Humor

  The Man WhoWas Thursday ch. 4 (1908)

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• And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

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  Judging, Mind, Might

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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  Buddhism, Doubt, Literature

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• Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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  Happiness, Men, Two

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• Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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  Men, Errors, Passing

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• I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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  Suffering, Our Society, Culture

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• Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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  Moving, Wine, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

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  Temptation, Noble, Too Much

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• Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

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  Sight, Bored, Quality

  "Alarms and Discursions". Chapter: "A Romance of the Marshes". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

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  Family, Men, Cities

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• I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

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  Believe, Practice, Baths

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• The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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  Men, Ordinary, Normal

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

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  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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  Happiness, Real, Pleasure Seeking

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• My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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  Brain, World, Fit

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• In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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  Failure, Civilization, World

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• Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

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  Thinking, Opposites, Serious

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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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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  Father, Heart, Men

  "The Innocence of Father Brown". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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  Morality, States, Forbidden

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