Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 32

• Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Process, Aim, Vigorous

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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  Vanity, Curiosity, Motive

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• The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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  Generations, Reason, Prophet

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• But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Mean, Giving

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Englishman”

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• Plato was right, but not quite right.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Plato

  "Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1934.

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• For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

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  Simplicity, Should, Chiefs

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

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• To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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  Mind, Theology, Humans

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

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  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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  Nature, Inspiration, World

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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  Clever, Husband, Stupid

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• Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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  Serious, Youth, Frivolity

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• A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

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  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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  Invisible, Champagne, Intoxication

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• If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

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  Real, Mean, Talking

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• Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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  Moving, Mean, Appreciate

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• The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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  Heaven, Splits, Orthodoxy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

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  Charity, Pelicans, Admire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Water, Wife

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

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• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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  Air, Space, Long

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• Theology is only thought applied to religion.

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  Theology

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• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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  Silence, Unbearable, Silence Is

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• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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  Reality, Facts, Spirit

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• Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

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  Cutting, Science, Doubt

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• Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

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  Sex, Animal, Men

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• Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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  Looks, Paper, Faces

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