G. K. Chesterton quotes - page 12

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. (G. K. Chesterton)
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. View quote
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. View quote
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Coincidences are spiritual puns. View quote
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. View quote
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. View quote
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. View quote
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. View quote
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. (G. K. Chesterton)
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. View quote
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. View quote
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. View quote
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. View quote
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. View quote
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Half a truth is better than no politics. View quote
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. View quote
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. (G. K. Chesterton)
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. View quote
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. View quote
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. View quote
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. View quote
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