G. K. Chesterton quotes - page 9

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. (G. K. Chesterton)
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. View quote
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. View quote
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. View quote
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. View quote
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. View quote
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? View quote
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. View quote
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. View quote
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. View quote
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. (G. K. Chesterton)
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. View quote
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. View quote
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. View quote
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. View quote
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. View quote
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. View quote
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. View quote
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. View quote
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. View quote
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (G. K. Chesterton)
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. View quote
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. View quote
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. View quote
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. View quote
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