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Gilbert K Chesterton Inspirational Quotes (729)

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There are no new ideas about female education.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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