Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 26

• The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Literature, Fame

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• Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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  Christian, Sadness, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

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  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Chess

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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  Art, Men, Thinking

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• If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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  Wisdom, Men, Past

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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  Writing, Editors, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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  May, Recurrence, Repetition

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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  Victory, Purpose, Failing

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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  People, Ordinary, Knows

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• One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Self, Soul

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VI. "The Paradoxes of Christianity", 1908.

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• It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Play, Heaven

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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  Party, Humor, Play

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• Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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  Flames, Facts, Spirit

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• The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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  Men, Creative, Extravagance

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• One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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  Growing, Aging, Pleasure

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• The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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  Men, Effort, Truth Is

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

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  Men, Sky, Political

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• No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

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  Men, Common, Boat

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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  Mean, Thinking, Connected

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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  Heart, Men, Brain

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Worst, Knows

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• All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

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  Tired, Men, Water

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• We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

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  Kings, Pennies, Divine

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