Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 5

• The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

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  School, Men, Doe

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• A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

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  Long, Amusement, Amused

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• All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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  Men, Ordinary, Knows

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• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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  Ideas, Catholic, May

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• Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

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  Believe, Tolerance, Virtue

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Instant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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• As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

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  Children, War, Views

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• Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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  Grief, Inspiration, Joy

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• We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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  Self, Criticism, Excess

  "Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1932.

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• Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Worship

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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  Player, Mad, Imagination

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

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  Needs

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

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  Kings, Hate, Men

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• It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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  Men, Arguing, Apologetic

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• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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  Funny, Money, Clever

  Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves"

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• [No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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  Numbers, Political, Pay

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• One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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  Love, World, Way

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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  Men, Great Men, Knows

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