Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

• Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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  Jesus, Fearless, Church

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• The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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  Believe, Men, Problem

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• The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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  Business, Mistake, Political

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

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• Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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  Inspirational, Looks, Sun

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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  Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd

  "St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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  Life, Hate, Passion

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• You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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  Problem, Solutions, Ifs

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

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• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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  Faith, Moral, Sanity

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• Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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  Issues, Principles, Moral

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• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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  Life, Happiness, Smart

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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  Husband, Ideas, Feminism

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• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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  Life And Love, Great Person, Really Great

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• But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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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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  Running, Differences, States

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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  Educational, People, Leaving

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• Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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  Home, Mean, Not Worth It

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• It is always the secure who are humble.

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  Humble, Kids, Humility

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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  Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

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