Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 8

• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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  Use, Worship, Should

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

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  Divine Revelation, Revelations, Theologian

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• There are some desires that are not desirable.

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  Desire, Morality, Desirable

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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  Art, Born, Eternal

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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  Faith, Men, Bows

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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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• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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• There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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  Simple, Doe, Way

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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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• 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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• It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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  Favour, Obvious, Skepticism

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• A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

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  Men, Were Meant To Be, Doubtful

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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