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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
