Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 8

• If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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  Motivational, Sunset, Men

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• The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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  Country, Scum Of The Earth, Rich

  'The Flying Inn' (1914) ch. 15

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• Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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  Government, Abolish

  "Christendom in Dublin" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Ch. III), 1932.

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• A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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  Divine Revelation, Revelations, Theologian

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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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  Mean, Doe, Too Much

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• Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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  Art, Born, Eternal

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• children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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  Children, Desire, Kites

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• The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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  Real, Men, Greatness

  1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

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• Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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  Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

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• Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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  Certain

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

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• I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Mean

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• Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

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  Government, Law, Madness

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• The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

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  Men, Secret, Helping

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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  Essentials, Next, Cleanliness

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• Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

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  Jobs, Book, Journey

  "A Defense of Nonsense". "The Defendant" by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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  Education, Saint, Speak

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• How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Would Be

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

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  Religious, Mean, Practice

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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  Fall, Brain, Want

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• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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  Knowledge, Men, Doe

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