Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 6

• I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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  Real, Character, People

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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 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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• Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Ignorance

  "The Speaker", December 15, 1900.

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• We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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  Law, People, Needs

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• The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

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  Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

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• At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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  Spiritual, Art, Brain

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• Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

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  Spiritual, Definitions, Coincidence

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• I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

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  Believe, Found, Preaching

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• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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  Mean, Government, Political

  New York Times 1 Feb. 1931, pt. 5, p. 1

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• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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  Funny, Math, Statistics

  Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin"

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• There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

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  Certain, One Thing

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• When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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  Believe, Men, Believe In God

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• It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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  Happiness, Light, Easy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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  Gratitude, Men, Joyful

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• The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

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  Fighting, Battle, Glimpse

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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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• I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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  Cities, Parks, Committees

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• Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

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  Men, Trying, Looks

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

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  Catholic, Reason, Explaining

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• Passion makes every detail important.

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  Passion, Important, Details

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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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• The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

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  Missing, Links, Facts

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• The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

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  Men, Rights, Independence

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• If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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  Morality, Modern, Strengthening

  "By What Definition is Gavin Newsom’s Sex Life 'Breaking News'?" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2007.

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