Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 3

• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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  Family, Christian, Prayer

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• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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  Beauty, Broken Heart, Beautiful

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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  Differences, Listening, Listening And Hearing

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• How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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  Encouragement, Clever, Failure

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• Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

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  Feminist, Female, Characteristics

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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  Obvious Things, Civilization, Decay

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• The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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  Atheism, Masterpiece, Extraordinary

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• A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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  Creativity, Construction, Creative Thought

  "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The test of happiness is gratitude.

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  Christian, Gratitude, Tests

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• The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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  Men, Catholic, Riddle

  "The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

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• If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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  Atheist, Believe, Doctors

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• CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

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  Communication, Civilisation, Judged

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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  Moving, Christian Inspirational, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

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  Fear, Blessing, Men

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• I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

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  Stupid, Believe, Men

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, June 3, 1922.

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• The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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  Hate, Argument, Discussion

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• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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  Christian, Religion, Morality

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

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• Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.3.

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• When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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  Names, Heaven, Belief

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

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  Civilization, People, Islam

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