Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 30

• Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

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  Home, Adventure, Men

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• Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

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  Friendship, Different, Different Things

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• Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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  Food, Science, Important

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• The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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  Wine, Glasses, Catholic

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• But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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  News, Paradise, Green

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road"

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• A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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  Strong, Men, Great Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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  Artist, Men, Bombs

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffron Park, 1908.

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• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

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  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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  Divorce, People, Reason

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• Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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  Eugenics, May, Nonsense

  "What I Saw in America". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

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  Running, Fear, Believe

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• [A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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  Enemy, Lasts, Lists

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• If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

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  Men, Victory, Battle

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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  Men, Civilization, Medicine

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• Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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  Integrity, Dry, Wonder

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• History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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  History, Slides

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• We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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  Clever, Tasks, Next

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• In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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  Truth, Struggle, Dawn

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• If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

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  Fall, Tired, Sleep

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1925.

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• Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

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  Christmas, Beautiful, Home

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• Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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  Book, Written

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• The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

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  Wise, Silly, Princess

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• Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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  Christian, Joy, Secret

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

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• There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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  People, Doe, Honest

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• It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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  Fashion, Culture, Exile

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