Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 5

• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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  Funny, Believe, Evil

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• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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  Support, Intelligence, Intuition

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• All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

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  Believe, Men, Matter

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• God is not a symbol of goodness;
  goodness is a symbol of God

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  Goodness, Symbols

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

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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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• It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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  Believe, Common Sense, Firsts

  "The Oracle of the Dog". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1923.

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

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Worship

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

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  Men, Ordinary, Knows

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• The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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  Love, Pleasure, Crisis

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• We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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  Christian, Moving, Church

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• 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, Stupid, Men

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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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• Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

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  Reality, Choices, Dignity

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• The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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  Philosophy, Science, Talking

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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 need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

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  Needs

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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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• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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  Fiction, Literature, World

  "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", All Things Considered, 1908.

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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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• 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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• Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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  Drinking, Alcohol, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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